Isaiah lincoln and aaron pratt



@with tatt y @attent @ffice ISAIAH LINCOLN AND AARON PRATT, OF COHASSET, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 62,761, dated M'arch 12,1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANIMAL TETHER @Ligt tlgcmle nfrrrrh tuin tlgise rtists lnicut mit making met nf tlg: sume.

'lO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that we, IsArAH LINCOLN and AARON PRATT, of'Cohasset, in the county of Norfolk, and State of lllassachusetts, have invented lan Improved Animal Tether; antifwe do hereby-'declare that the following` tak-en in connection with the drawings `which aeeompanyand form part of this specification, is adescriptien of our invention sutlicient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

The advantages to bederived from tethering animals are nearly nullified by the dangers incurred by them arising from their ent-angling the tethe'ing rope or chain uponits pivot. A tethering device has been produced. `by means of which animals secured thereby can feed freely within'a given radius wit-hout.- chance of fouling, wimling,'or,entangling the tether-ing bond at or on the pvot. Bntsaid device iscostly, and too cumbersome to b e n mve'il' easily by one person fronrplace to place, 'as the feed within the scope of a tethered animal becomes exhausted, and it is therefore of but little use to practical agricnltursts.

v,ily-thin invention, or:animal-tcthcringdevice is pmdueeih. which is cheap, simplgeasily removable. from. place to plnccnnnd it entirely prevents fouling or entangl'ing of the tetheringbond on or around theppivot. Said invention consistsv in ,mn-king the piece to which the tether-bond is secpnred, as a tube or sleeve-covering, and capable of freely rotating ou a stake or-pi`n driven into the ground.

A tetliering device embodying this invent-ion is seen in perspective in Figure 1, land in verticalV ccntral'section ,in Figure 2.- i Y Y l Y ais a plain round pin orstake, on which the tube or sleeve b is so placed that it`may be freely rotatedvwith its buse in contact with th'e surface of the ground. It is advisable to make the sleeve b of metal or other suitable heavy material, and to give to thc base thereof a flare like a trumpet-mouth, so as to prevent the 'tether-bond c,

base ot' the sleeve.

which is tied aronndthe sleeve b, from coming into couttetwith the surface of the stake, by getting under the kit will be obvious that no movement of au animal tethered to the' coutrivance shown and described, can result in winding up the length of the tether-bond, because the sleeve will be rotated by any movement which would wind it around a fixed stake. A rfng or short thi'mble slipped over a fixed stake, with the tether-bond secured to said ring or thimble, will .lol serve the purposes of the ,sleeve b, because the bond is'not thereby prevented from coming into eontactwit 1 .-.e stake, and the winding thereupon is not therefore prevented.

We e-lnini the device -fortethering I' gels', substantially as described.

' ISAI-AH LINCOLN,l n

, 4AARON PRATT.

Witnesses:

J. B.y Cuosnr, F. GouLn.' 

